Dot Peters
Respected Aboriginal Australian Elder who worked tirelessly for many years in the eastern region, raising awareness of Aboriginal issues and strengthening the community.
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Teresita Fernández
Teresita Fernández, recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is a sculptor and visual artist whose works—often large in scale and inspired by landscape and natural phenomena—explore issues of perception and seeing.
Emily Muir
Emily Lansingh Muir, the first woman to serve on the US Commission of Fine Arts, was a painter who drew her inspiration from the life and landscape of coastal Maine.
Rebecca Buffum Spring
New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a leading advocate for land rights and reconciliation, and in 1964 published the first modern poetry book by an Aboriginal Australian woman.
Rachel Lovell Wells
1700s American wax sculptor and entrepreneur
Nora Heysen
In 1938, Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize for Portraiture.
Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings
Kiowa regalia maker
Susan Waters
Susan C. Waters painted in the region around the New York-Pennsylvania border in the 1800s.
Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher was the first female director of the National Gallery of Australia.